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Zither & Autobiography
Poetry. ZITHER & AUTOBIOGRAPHY is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of childhood--especially of years spent in Asia--experimenting with the memoir form to explore how a view of one's own
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Leslie Scalapino’s been on my mind a lot lately. I’ve admired the seriousness and dedication apparent in her work for years, but my mind just doesn’t work like hers. Consequently, as often happens in these cases, I’ve tended to take her
sui generis
explorations of time, memory, and the experience of subjectivity as prescriptive, even admonishing, like I ought to be experiencing the world that way myself.
Somehow Zither & Autobiography helped get me over that hang-up. It couples a fairly acce ...more
Somehow Zither & Autobiography helped get me over that hang-up. It couples a fairly acce ...more
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